Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Langford, Thomas, The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community. 358 pp. 2024:9 (U. British Columbia Pr., CN) <729-393>
ISBN 978-0-7748-6928-7 hard ¥24,794.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out tells the story of its fight for survival.Underground mine closures began in 1950, prompting attempts by unions, leftist parties, municipal governments, and business groups to save the local economy. Efforts to reindustrialize in the mid-1960s brought unregulated growth, unsafe working conditions, and pollution. Starting in 1968, new strip mines were built to produce metallurgical coal for Asia-Pacific steelmakers.Not only is this an interesting regional history, but the consideration of the role of labour unions, local communists, and grassroots environmentalists makes it especially compelling. Today, with technological change in steel manufacturing on the horizon, propelled by the climate crisis, Langford argues that the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley must look toward ecosystem restoration, sustainable economic activities, and the inclusion of First Nations in decision making in order to embrace a future beyond coal.

労働者階級の歴史を研究する
Betts, Oliver / Harrison, Laura et al. (eds.), Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement. 366 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-1574>
ISBN 978-0-367-36134-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-88296-3 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class - especially discussion of the working class - to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can be researched, written, and represented.The book is structured in three parts: perspective, context, and application. Each offers an introduction to both classic historiography and new ideas and methodologies. With chapters covering a span of the years c.1750-present, the book focuses on three essential questions:What is working-class history and what should it become?What can a focus on working-class history reveal?What are the possibilities of this research in the university classroom, the heritage world, and beyond?Doing Working-Class History will appeal to students and scholars of working-class history, whether relative newcomers to the field or veteran researchers interested in new approaches and material. It will also be of interest to local and family historians, museum and heritage professionals, and general readers.

Clark, Daniel J., Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s. (Working Class in American History) 230 pp. 2024:8 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1575>
ISBN 978-0-252-04599-8 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08809-4 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detroit-area automotive plants in the 1950s.In their own words, the interviewees frankly discuss personal matters like divorce and poverty alongside recollections of childhood and first jobs, marriage and working women, church and hobbies, and support systems and workplace dangers. Their frequent struggles with unstable jobs and economic insecurity upend notions of the 1950s as a golden age of prosperity while stories of domestic violence and infidelity open a door to intimate aspects of their lives. Taken together, the narratives offer seldom-seen accounts of autoworkers as complex and multidimensional human beings.Compelling and surprising, Listening to Workers foregoes the union-focused strain of labor history to provide ground-level snapshots of a blue-collar world.

Emmons, David M., History's Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930. (Working Class in American History) 366 pp. 2024:10 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-169>
ISBN 978-0-252-04609-4 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08819-3 paper ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman-Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way than did the Protestants who settled and claimed it. These erratics chose backward looking tradition and independence over assimilation and embraced a quintessentially Irish form of subversiveness that arose from their culture, faith, and working-class outlook. David M. Emmons draws on decades of research and thought to plumb the mismatch of values between Protestant Americans hostile to Roman Catholicism and the Catholic Irish strangers among them. Joining ethnicity and faith to social class, Emmons explores the unique form of dissidence that arose when Catholic Irish workers and their sympathizers rejected the beliefs and symbols of American capitalism. A vibrant and original tour de force, History's Erratics explores the ancestral roots of Irish nonconformity and defiance in America.

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle, Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World. 336 pp. 2025:2 (Georgetown U. Pr., US) <729-1375>
ISBN 978-1-64712-527-1 hard ¥19,393.- (税込) US$ 89.95
ISBN 978-1-64712-528-8 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and sharecropping-which were the least regulated and lowest paying occupations for women in the US economy-were the few available ways for Black women and girls to make a living in Jane Crow America. In response to these circumstances, Nannie Helen Burroughs, the pioneering Black American educator and civil rights leader, established the National Training School for Women and Girls (NTS) in Washington, DC. Nannie Helen Burroughs tells the story of the powerful labor movement that resulted from Burroughs's work at the NTS and in the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The NTS proved to be a revolutionary labor and educational initiative that redefined household employment as a profession where social justice for the Black community could be achieved. The NTS was integral to a Black clubwomen's labor movement that paved the way for a broader transformation of the economic landscape for Black women and girls. Nannie Helen Burroughs establishes Burroughs as one of America's most influential labor leaders in the twentieth century and reveals the powerful lessons her work and ideas still offer for America's laborers, labor organizers, scholars, and women's rights and racial justice activists today. It also establishes Burroughs and her colleagues in the National Association of Colored Women as the architects of an unprecedented labor movement.

Goddard, Connie, Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity. 312 pp. 2024:9 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1472>
ISBN 978-0-252-04604-9 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-252-08814-8 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of industrial education and the transformative idea of "learning to do." Rooting her account in John Dewey's ideas, Goddard moves from early nineteenth century supporters of the union of learning and labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey's Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, North Dakota's Normal and Industrial School, and related programs elsewhere. Goddard analyzes the work of movement figures like abolitionist Theodore Weld, educators Calvin Woodward and Booker T. Washington, social critic W.E.B. Du Bois, Dewey himself, and his influential Chicago colleague Ella Flagg Young. The book contrasts ideas about manual training held by advocate Nicholas Murray Butler with those of opponent William Torrey Harris and considers overlooked connections between industrial education and the Arts and Crafts Movement. An absorbing merger of history and storytelling, Learning for Work looks at the people who shaped industrial education while offering a provocative vision of realizing its potential today.

Juravich, Nick, Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education. (Working Class in American History) 344 pp. 2024:12 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <729-1474>
ISBN 978-0-252-04615-5 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08823-0 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status. Understanding paras as key players in Black and Latino struggles for jobs and freedom, Nick Juravich details how the first generation of paras in New York City transformed work in public schools and the relationships between schools and the communities they served. Paraprofessional programs created hundreds of thousands of jobs in working-class Black and Latino neighborhoods. These programs became an important pipeline for the training of Black and Latino teachers in the1970s and early 1980s while paras' organizing helped drive the expansion and integration of public sector unions. An engaging portrait of an invisible profession, Para Power examines the lives and practices of the first generation of paraprofessional educators against the backdrop of struggles for justice, equality, and self-determination.

Teelucksingh, Jerome, Emergence of the Caribbean Empire: Politics and Labour in Trinidad and Tobago, 1918-1976. 266 pp. 2024:6 (P. Lang, SZ) <729-1092>
ISBN 978-1-80374-372-1 paper ¥15,481.- (税込) SFR 62.00

≪This book by Jerome Teelucksingh showcases his excellent craftsmanship as a social historian. The subject of the study is the involvement of the Labour Movement of Trinidad and Tobago in party politics during most of the 20th century. The familiar theme of labour movement-political party collaboration is in the tradition of the many fascinating studies on the links between the British Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party of Great Britain. An admirable feature of the book is the extensive use the author makes of newspaper sources of the period.≫ (Dr. Roy Thomas, former Director of the Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies, Trinidad and Tobago) ≪Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh’s well-researched book is a very serious attempt to place on record the origins and development of our political and electoral history prior to the granting of adult franchise in 1946 and after World War Two. This book provides extremely valuable information to all our citizens who are interested in the journey from colonialism to Republicanism.≫ (Ferdie Ferreira, former member of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers’ Trade Union, retired Deputy General Manager of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago) This book is an analysis of the involvement and impact of Trinidad and Tobago’s first major labour organisation, the Trinidad Workingmen’s Association (TWA), and early trade unions in politics. Furthermore, the author focuses on the role of unions in the evolution of working class consciousness from its rudimentary stages to the subsequent rise of organized trade unionism of the post-1937 era. Consideration is given to the seminal role of the early trade unions as mobiliser and organiser of the working class both for participation in electoral politics, and as a catalyst for ethnic cohesion in the post-World War One era to 1976. One of the major conclusions in the study is that the early working class organizations and emergence of ideologically strong trade unionism and ad hoc groups as the electioneering campaign committees were the precursors of the well-organized political machinery of the post-World War Two era. The author provides evidence that the comprehensive organisational skills of Labour in organizing meetings, selecting candidates, campaigning for votes and debating issues on the electoral platform were determining factors which resulted in creditable performances in limited electoral victories in elections during 1925 to 1976.